James 4:11

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. He who speaks evil against a brother and judges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. And if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

In Context

10Be humbled before the Lord, and He will exalt you. 1 Do Not Judge a Brother

12There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you who judges the other? 1 Boasting About Tomorrow

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Cross References

Luke 6:37“And do not judge, and you shall not be judged. Do not condemn, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven.

Romans 2:13(for it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

Romans 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good. 1 Law Cannot Save from Sin

Romans 14:10But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

2 Corinthians 12:20For I am afraid, lest perhaps when I come, I will not find you as I desire, and that I will be found by you as you do not desire; lest perhaps there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, disputes, slanders, gossipings, pride, disorders;

Matthew Henry on James 4:2-11

Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. ( a. d. 61.) 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever… Read the whole commentary →

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